Putting together a self training syllabus?

[Voyager]

As I've mentioned elsewhere, I've got pretty limited flying time these days, so I'm trying to get the most out of it, and always have a next step prepped. My background is in WWII era flight sims, so the basic mechanism of flying I've got a solid handle on, (though the F-14 is much bigger, heavier, faster, and trustier than anything from the second world war) but the systems are generally completely new to me.

 

Right now I'm working on the airfield patterns and day landings. The goals are to get to a point where I can run through the power-on checklist from memory, orbit the airfield at a constant controlled speed, and consistently enter the glide slope correctly. It does seem like the airfield at the cold start mission has a number of mountains around it that, if I'm reading the barometric altimeter correctly, are in the 500-1000ft range. Also, when setting the reference altitude, I'm guessing I should be setting the altitude pressure to the one listed in the mission briefing (29.82, if I'm remembering it correctly)?

 

In generally, what should be the next main system I should focus in on? I'm thinking either day light navigation, or night take-offs and landings, but am open to suggestions? That's the TACAN system, correct?

 

Thank you,

 

Harry Voyager

 

Back in my day, we didn't have these here fancy computers. Our computers were just a spinny disk thing, and you had to know what it meant when you used it!

[draconus]

It depends on how much serious/real you take it and what you gonna do with it? Do you plan to learn RIO stuff too?

 

If you want it as much real as possible go with Navy training documents.

If you want to excel in combat just take it to the sky and train wepons delivery and ACM.

Tacan and waypoint nav is pretty simple but a must to get you home.

 

 

There are also some simple campaigns to test yourself against. Play and train on the go, whatever you feel is needed atm.

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=236664

[Voyager]

Long term objective is to be able to fly on a full real multiplayer modes in the front seater role, and be able to accomplish all of the aircraft's primary missions. I also want to fully understand all of these systems and how to get the most from them, including failure recovery. Eventually I want to build a VR focused simpit for the plane.

 

So, sounds like I'm looking at something similar to the Navy training,along with setup for the game voicexom voice com interface. Are those even publicly available? I thought most of the F-14 stuff was under lockdown?

[sLYFa]

I strongly recommend the real f-14b manual, if you can get a hold of it. It Covers every non-combat system and procedure and afaik includes a list of exercises for first familiarization flights. I also recommend the article on carrier ops over at hoggit. For me the most rewarding part was getting the case I and night recoveries right but this takes a LOT of practice. But I can tell you, night recoveries in VR are the most demanding awesome thing I ever did in a flightsim and I've done a lot of simstuff over the years.

The nav system in the tomcat is pretty basic so you will be stuck with Tacan approaches for IFR at the beach but that's also a fun thing to practice IMHO.

[Voyager]

Bear in mond, if it's not on the P-47, it's new to me, and TACAN sounds new to me :).

 

So facing having access to a real F-14B manual, sounds like next steps are go through FAA TACAN operation, then the Hoggit thread on Case I carrier operations next.

 

I'm wondering, are three any training squadrons doing F-14B stuff that people might recommend? It will be some time before I can do multiplayer, but I'd think they'd have offline work I could run in the meantime?

[draconus]

Look through the sticky threads by Victory205 - these are great guides for a start. There's also good online manual or pdf if you wish - should be enough to read.

No point in waiting for multiplayer if you can fly already :)

[Need-To-Know]

Great that you are training!

Edited May 30, 2019 by Need-To-Know
Redacted, must have misunderstood op